Regex performance

[Kapps]

On Saturday, 24 March 2012 at 23:06:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> This might be worth looking into. Dmitry?
>
> http://jblewitt.com/blog/?p=462
>
>
> Andrei

A difference of that amount is likely expecting something like 
regex("Blah") to not have to create a new regex struct each time, 
something which I'm guessing Ruby does (as do other standard 
libraries like .NET).